Riley Cook
Waiting
October 11, 2020
I am a spool of thread. I’m a thin wire, wrapped around myself over and over. I spin and build my recognizable form.
My undoing started years ago. The minutiae, the little inconveniences. Tugged on my ends. My threads were cut and frayed. Trimmed to satisfaction.
In March of 2020, I was wrought and pulled out of my studio. Unwillingly bound to the domicile. Cast into a state of suspension. How much time has passed between March and today? Is it October? I sit now in a cold room with greenery celebrating autumn’s arrival outside my window. Rain passes with thunderous applause.
Twiddling my thumbs. Alone. I wait for inspiration to strike. I’m imagining the places I’ve been and where I long to return. The people I haven’t seen are vanishing from my eye. I stare in silence at my blank canvas, wordlessly. It exists outside of me. My mind clawing for reprieve. I sit alone, waiting quietly to be interpreted. Every day I’m turning over in my head the ways to get out. Where to find my people, my comfort, my home.
Still I can’t move. Stuck.
My eyelids are pulling half-closed, fully-conscious. Preoccupied but fast asleep… or disturbed and wide-awake? Vacillating between uncertainty and desperation.
Waiting feels like my soul is being pulled through my fingertips, out into the grey static abyss of space and time—beyond control. My fingers are thin grey bones. Wispy and fluid and distorted, floating and resigned to the wind. I am threadbare. My spool has only a few rotations left. So I scavenge for moss and leaves and twist them into some grimy rope and fashion a thread for me,
new.
I’m spinning in circles, sitting in one place
Stirring inside
Cupping my cheeks
Fitting the days into nothing
Wispy hand like willow branches
Worn thin
Pressed flat
And stretched a mile long
Crunchy fingers smash on the keyboard. Snapping hip, sitting all day. Anxiously pacing in place with my thoughts, dull and numb. The code I write is null and dumb. The words and sentences formed between my mouth and keys…
The Inimitable Chaos of The Present
October 11, 2020
Entre Cada Palabra
October 23, 2020
Curvilinear forms are expressive of the people in my life. They represent human urges and natural will. The curved forms don’t operate by rules; instead they move of their own accord. They indicate many contradictions and tensions in life, including connections and disconnections; causation and effect; growth and decay; creation and consumption; love and neglect.
Capture, Frozen in A Moment’s Time
October 29, 2020
Modus Operandi
November 7, 2020
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